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单词 unseasonable
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unseasonableadj.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈsiːzn̩əbl/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈsiːz(ə)nəbl/, U.S. /ˌənˈsizn̩əb(ə)l/, /ˌənˈsizənəb(ə)l/
Etymology: un- prefix1 1b.
1.
a. Not suited to, not in accordance with, the time or occasion; untimely, inopportune.
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adjective]
untimec1000
untidya1225
untimesa1300
out of season1377
undue1398
out of time1483
untimeousa1500
importunate1529
inopportune1533
importunea1535
unconvenable1542
intempestive1548
unseasonable1561
untimeable1570
out-of-season1574
untimely1581
unseasoned1589
baldc1590
timeless1590
melancounterous?1602
untimelessa1607
unopportune1653
mistimelyc1680
mistimed1687
ill-timed1692
ill-seasoned1843
unchancy1860
intempestuous1885
unseasonal1935
1561 X Commaundementes of Loue in Chaucer's Wks. f. cccxlijv/1 Take measure in langage..For measure..Thynges vnseasonable setteth in season.
1591 in Acts Privy Council (1900) XXI. 123 The unordinate and unseasonable taking of the same [spawn] by the common fishers.
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 74 To chuse time is to save time, and an vnseasonable motion is but beating the aire.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 201 Whence haply mention may arise Of somthing not unseasonable to ask. View more context for this quotation
1718 Free-thinker No. 7. 1 A Notion prevails..that Marriage in Lent is unseasonable.
1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 207. ⁋9 Unseasonable importunity of discontent.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. v. 522 The English fleet,..dispersed by the weather, incurred considerable danger of a very unseasonable rencounter.
1839 W. C. Taylor Student's Man. Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) xvii. §2. 501 This rash conspiracy induced Galba to sully the commencement of his reign by unseasonable severities.
1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. xi. 497 The omission to inspect the accounts was unseasonable and injudicious.
in extended use.1722 R. Steele Conscious Lovers iii. i The familiar, learned, unseasonable Puppy!
b. Of time: Not suitable for the action specified or implied.Frequently (with hour) implying an unusual time of the night.
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adjective] > of time
unseasonablea1616
untimeous1728
untimely1827
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. ii. 20 This acte..Being vrged at a time vnseasonable . View more context for this quotation
1621 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 261 The said ship..at last at unseasonable time made tryall to com for Petapolie.
1674 R. Head Jackson's Recantation sig. B1 To let them out at unseasonable hours, and stay up for them, till it be early.
1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. iii. 73 Who knows but God may bless Instruction, tho' begun at an unseasonable time.
1759 R. Jackson Hist. Rev. Pennsylvania 100 Neither did they conceive the Time to be unseasonable for an Application to the Crown.
1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family II. 176 If I presume to intrude upon you at an unseasonable hour.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Leila i. vi. 46 The alarm it might occasion..if he endeavoured, at so unseasonable an hour, to force an entrance.
c. As adv. Unseasonably; out of season.
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adverb]
in (earlier on) untimec897
untimelyc1200
out of timea1325
in unseasona1400
importunelyc1425
in an evil (also ill, etc.) hour1490
importunatelya1492
at ungaina1500
untimeously1513
intempestively1548
out of season1548
timeless1586
unseasonably1586
inopportunely1609
unseasonablea1634
unopportunely1651
timelessly1673
unseasonally1941
a1634 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois (1641) iii. 42 How most unseasonable thou playest the Cucko, In this thy fall of friendship.
1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies xii. 174 This came very Unseasonable; Or if there had been any Errour, it might have been dissembled.
2.
a. Of fish, etc.: Not in season.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [adjective] > not in season
unseasonablec1450
c1450 Cal. Letter-bks. London, D. (1902) IV. 198 Ye shalle not suffre no fysshe corrupt ne unsesynable to be solde.
1472 Presentmts. of Juries in Surtees Misc. (1890) 23 We say yt yer have boght of late..unsesanabyll wetyl, yt is to say, feche & herrynge, bothe Thom Smythe & John Clyffe.
1488–9 Act 4 Hen. VII c. 21 Aswell grete fisshes unsesonable as the seid frie.
1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 7 Kyllyng of salmons when they be unsesonable and not holsome for manns body.
1563 in W. K. Clay Liturg. Services Q. Eliz. (1847) 488 The same poor which either lack food, or else that which they have is unseasonable and cause of sickness.
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler vi. 133 The old Salmon..grow sick in fresh waters, and by degrees unseasonable . View more context for this quotation
1677 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1889) VII. 6 A Startforth yeoman for catching ten unseasonable fish called scurfes.
1842 Act 5 & 6 Victoria c. 106 §74 If any Person shall..have in his Possession any..unclean or unseasonable Salmon or Trout.
b. Not properly matured; unseasoned. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective] > unready or immature
green?a1300
rawa1398
indigest1398
unmatured?a1425
unripea1500
unseasonable1515
unbuilded1519
inchoate1534
unripened1561
uncivil1572
unmellowed1573
unmanured1577
unblown1587
ungrown1593
unpolished1594
rudimental1597
rude1600
unsalted1602
unseasoned1602
unlicked1612
embryon1613
unbakeda1616
unbloweda1616
unfledged1615
unmellow1615
sappya1627
embryous1628
unconcocteda1631
unkneaded1633
immature1635
sucking1648
vacuous1651
embryo1659
unelaborate1663
unmature1673
unformed1689
undeveloped1736
infantile1772
uncultivated1796
unelaborated1817
fetal1820
embryotic1823
embryonic1825
embryonary1833
sophomoric1837
seedling1843
rudimentary1851
unwrought1869
juvenescent1875
vealy1890
under-developed1892
1515 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 344 We present Ser John Bagula for makyng on seysnabulle tyle.
1548 Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI c. 10 §1 Sondrie persons..made myche Malte unpure and unseasonable.
3. Of weather: Not appropriate to the season of the year; esp. stormy, tempestuous. Also of days, seasons, etc., marked by such weather.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [adjective] > unseasonable
unseasonablea1513
ill-seasoned1635
unseasonal1937
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxxxxiv Great scarcete of Corne and Frute in Fraunce by meane of vnsesonable Wederynge.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. ii. 102 An vnseasonable stormie day. View more context for this quotation
1602 in F. Moryson Itinerary (1617) ii. 261 Their Haruest was so vnseasonable, and their Corne was so destroied by the weather, as numbers of subiects will vndoubtedly die of famine.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 466 By reason of vnseasonable weather the corne..was choked and blasted in the eare.
a1650 G. Boate Irelands Nat. Hist. (1652) xxi. 166 The ripeness of the fruits..is greatly retarded by the abundance of unseasonable rain.
1696 Mrs. Ray in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) (Camden) 203 Heer hath been a very unseasonable Summer, for the most part very cold and wet.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 212 A cold, dry, unseasonable Spring.
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. iv. 84 The unseasonable seasons drove With alternating shafts of frost and fire, Their..pale tribes to mountain caves.
1854 Poultry Chron. 1 578/1 Notwithstanding the cold, dark, unseasonable day.
1879 S. C. Bartlett Egypt to Palestine xx. 442 Plucking lilies of the field from beneath the unseasonable snow.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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